Marked prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
6.40 Prayer for the Day CANON JOHN MACNAMARA
with Brian Redhead in Manchester and Michael Cooke in London
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Sports News and Today's Papers; at 7.25* and 8.25* VHF Regional News and Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
bv WILLIAM .), LOCKE
The Adventure of the Miracle (1) abridged and read by Aubrey Woods
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
(Part 2: tomorrow)
Living Walls
Hedges aren't just fences made of shrubs and trees - they're strips of living history. The oldest ones, remnants of our ancient forests, must be hundreds of years old.- David Streeter looks at hedges of different types, and the abundance of wild flowers that grow alongside them.
Introduced by PETER FRANCE Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
Looking for Trouble?
Prevention, we're always told, is better than cure; therefore, it would seem a good idea to screen the population to give early warning of disease. But medical experts in Britain are sharply divided on its value; Why? Should we be doing more screening or less?
Presented by Bill Breckon
Medical adviser DAVID DELVIN Producers SUSAN SNAILUM andPATTAYLOR
BBC home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories.
Introduced by JOHN HEDGES Producer TERRY LLOYD
NEM, p 79; 0 praise ye the Lord! praise him in the height (BBC HB 279); Psalm 104, vv 25-36; Hebrews 12, vv 1-13 (NEB): 0 brother man (BBC HB 376)
The End of the Game by ROSEMARY MANNING Read by Hugh Burden
Alec pulled his coat over his knees. It was very cold in the sitting-room. The ashtrays were still unemptied after the dinner party of the previous night ... A soft thud startled him. On the floor lay a soft, woolly toy, a puma , i
Liquid Assets
Presenter Nancy Wise
I Know My Rights - or Do I?
Chairman Robert Robinson 15: Wales
MICHAEL YOUNG (Dyfed), student; DR TONY REYNOLDS (Mid Glamorgan), medical practitioner; JAMES PIRIE (Gwynedd), secretary; HARRY BUTLIN (Clwyd), retired technologist
Including Beat the Brains
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN , who, with IAN GILLIES , sets the questions. Producer TONY LUKE
(Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)
12.55 medium wave onlu
Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Millicent Martin
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Love and Marriage - Italian Style: ANNE CATCHPOLE hears about family life in modern Italy.
For Your Booklist: ELIZABETH THOMAS chooses some recent novels.
JON ROLLA SON reads Tower of Silence by MAURICE RICHARDSON abridged by JANET RICKSON
(Millicent Martin is in ' Side by Side at Sondheim ' at the Mermaid Theatre, London)
Story: Carrot Tops by JOAN WYATT
Gladys Spencer
Richard Hurndall and Derek Seaton in The Jellico by J. C. W. BROOK
1 My father used to have one, you see, and he couldn't say the name either. So he called it a Jellico after the battle of Jutland.'
Produced and directed by DAVID SPENSER
Ronnie Barker looks back on the life and career of WILL hay, the schoolmaster comedian, with illustrations from some of his stage, screen and radio performances and the voices of MRS HAy WILL HAY JR, THORA HIRD
CHARLES HAWTREY , PATRICK MOORE ROY HfN) and VAL GUEST BBC Birmingham
The Franchise Affair
8; We Reserve our Defence
Brian Widlake
5.50 medium wave onlu Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
This week:
David Nixon , Valerie Singleton Nemone Lethbridge Francis Matthews
In the Chair Cliff Michelmore Producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated:. Thursday 1.30 pm)
In the studio David Sells
You and Your Solicitor
Why do legal processes take so long? Why is it so difficult to obtain redress when you believe your solicitor has been neglecting your interests? How does the Law Society deal with disputes between solicitors and their clients?
Ring Robin Day to put your questions in person to Rear-Admiral Godfrey Place, V.C., the Law Observer whose first study of the Law Society's handling of complaints against solicitors was published last month. Producer WALTER WALLICH
Call [number removed] from 6.0 pm
by JAMES FOLLETT adapted from the book of the same name by ROGER CHAPM. -\N with Sean Barrett as Roger and Alun Bond as Mat
'Pisces support ship Vickers Voyager to Vickers Oceanics - Barrow-in-Furness. Ten hours, Wednesday 29 August 1973 ... Pisces Three aft sphere flooded and submersible bottomed in
1.575 feet; 150 miles south-west of Cork. Position 50 degrees, zero nine minutes.... Others taking part:
JOHN ROWE. PETER CRAZE
JAMES THOMASON , PATRICK BARR PAUL MEIER , WALTER HALL
MICHAEL FAWKES , JOANNA WAKE Producer NTAURICE LEITCH
(Rerised repeat: Fri 11.5 am)
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting
Little Ladyship (8)
Recalled bv
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
2: Tonga, New Zealand ana Australia - the first Royal Tour after the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II,
(Tomorroic: Ghana and Nigeria)
preceded by Weather
